Wish I got this speed on the IOM.

I miss the 40+ Mbps I used to get on 4G Three here. My home broadband is with Three's "Unlimited" plan with their Huawei B525 router. I mounted my own outdoor antenna as the router doesn't pick up the 4G inside. At the moment, Google's own speed test gives 21.2Mbps down, 13.4Mbps up, 27ms latency, but can drop down to around 10Mbps some evenings. When 4G first came in my area two years ago, I was regularly getting over 50Mbps before contention started up with others joining also. The only other broadband available here is DSL, which never went above 4Mbps in speed tests due to my distance from the exchange and no fibre cabinets.

Seán Byrne

As much as I'm not a virgin media fan, I have to say that being on their fibre to the premises (rather than co-ax) service, it's pretty good. I get 380Mbits/s down and 20mbits/s up and now they've sorted out capacity on their Leeds Youtube and Netflix cache cluster it's not altogether problematic. It's the one benefit of them only having laid the service 18 months ago here. However, there are other parts of York which have 1Gb symmetrical FTTP for £27 per month (see Ultra Fibre Optic) but they won't come outside the ring road so it's unlikely we'll get it for the foreseeable future. Plus with 10GbE home devices still quite rare, and I'm not aware of any home 10GbE routers yet, your bottleneck will be the LAN and Router - even with a 1Gb ethernet, with overheads you're less likely to be able to utilise the whole 1Gb of your internet link.... EDIT - There's one - the newest Netgear Nighthawk which has two 10GbE ports on it for SFP's (I have the older X6 which is epic) - but unless you're using DAC cables from your PC to your router it's an expensive way to cable up still....

Mark Wayt

North of Houston we have fiber but a lousy quality of service. Ant hint if weather and down it goes. Using iPad Pro I just tested at 35/11. Supposed to be much higher. To me it seems the biggest problem we have is lack of competition. Service providers must have competition to keep their game up and cost to customer moderate. Same for cable tv. Very expensive garbage.

Lying on a lumpy futon on the floor of a cheap hostel in rural Japan, I speed-tested the WiFi and got 145mbps down and 80 up, and I’m pretty sure the phone was the bottleneck.

It's definitely better than the old dial up speeds.

Big Clive

Central Texas in an area with no google fiber. The choices are poor and expensive to get wired 324/23 and wireless 97/18.

Nani Isobel

Manx Telecom don't need a hand to do that. Their whole system went down including emergency numbers last year.

Big Clive

They keep saying lost data, but I (and many others) also lost voice and SMS messaging too. Every number contacted would return as "Invalid number" if I had any signal at all. Seems to have settled a bit now though with voice and SMS now working. Data is flaky.

Marmite

Having read this on the day that (most of the UK?) lost data on one of the biggest networks, I'm beginning to think that Clive has been up to something trying to improve the IOM internet connection!!! See: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46464730" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46464730</a> Anyway we managed to survive the day despite our 'lifeline' being unavailable! :-)

Stephen Eyles

It has multiple undersea fibres. But business is given priority.

Big Clive

With Virgin Media , pretty rural, 380 down 21 up ..... £48 pm.

Ian James

Is that G.Fast? I'm not too optimistic about that tech, as you have to be pretty much sitting on top of the street cabinet to get any significant improvement over standard 80/20 VDSL2 - unless BT Openreach start putting hardware down the manholes so that most people are within a couple of hundred metres, that is. Last month I upgraded my smartphone to a Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and now when I'm at work it displays the mobile data standard as "4G+" as opposed to simply "4G", and speed tests from OpenSignal and Ookla Speedtest.net app gave results of around 150Mbps down and 25Mbps up, which is so much faster than I've ever seen on 4G before! At home I only get regular "4G" which is more like 20Mbps down and 10Mbps up :(

Andrew

I have 80Down 16up for 40 dollars/month in Ivoti, RS - Brazil

Thomas Richter

Not boasting, but BT somehow get 150Mb/s down twisted pair down here in the sarf of engerland, which is against all the transmission line theory I was made to learn at college.

Phil Collins

Back in the day we had Prestel! 1200/75 baud.

Anything 30 Mbps or more feels adequate for my current needs. The next big thing is 5G. Maybe they can invest in that on the IOM.

Frank

My mobile 4G connection here ( ookla: 100Mbps / 30Mbps ), Rotterdam/the Hague area, My cable ( ookla: 70Mbps / 30 Mbps, google: 300Mbps / 30Mbps ) . is faster -or- slower, depending on who i ask. hmm.

Willem Hengeveld

I used to get 1000mbit down and 50mbit up when i used to work for the isp. Now that i gut a new job i have to make due with 150/20, but it is fine :)

Daniel Rotskas

Here is my current connection speed: <a href="http://randomer.net/stuff/speed-test-20181205.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://randomer.net/stuff/speed-test-20181205.png</a> It's wireless from the front of my house to a repeater across the street and a bit south of me. For rural northern California, that speed and latency are fantastic!

Martel DuVigneaud

I've only done it once while I was working in Edinburgh. The Internet service I get on the Isle of Man is not suitable for streaming yet.

Big Clive

what ever happened to the live streaming clive?

Michael Gilchrest

Hmm. Northern California : 9ms / 150Mbps / 12Mbps - I had to pay extra for improved download speed though...

Huh. The IOM is only about 20 miles from Point of Ayre Lighthouse to Isle of Whithorn. I'm a little surprised somebody hasn't pulled a fiber cable to it; given the short distance, I would think it wouldn't be incredibly difficult. Edit: Looks like they have, but not one of the larger modern cables. Looks like there are only a few Gbps available for the 83,000 residents. There are also backup microwave links, which would add some redundancy and extra capacity, but would be less reliable than fiber.

DesertCreosote

Travelling. But I do have a wired and 4G connection on the IOM as backup.

Big Clive

Similar to the IOM. Typically 12Mbps down and 0.6Mbps up. I also have a backup 4G modem which promised 40M down and an equally optimistic upload speed. The new service was oversubscribed and the speed went down to 0.2Mbps up and down for a long time.

Big Clive

I have 100Mb down, but only 10Mb up... $60/month in Columbia, MO USA.

Jorg Jorgensen

One may have to float at 72.8/32 then. Looking forward to 5g

Neil Tonks

Yes, an issue in the country here (Australia), if only the government had stuck to their original National Broadband Network plan instead of politicising it to fibre to the node and wet string to the premises.

Rob Googe

Why you have to use 4G? there's no wired connection in IOM?

Nguyen Quang Minh

Never use my phone for Internet as they charge me for data.

George Cohn

I wouldn't bitch. Where I live, I have a 9.2 MBS download and only 856Kbs upload on my home DSL connection.

George Cohn

For giggles I tested from inside my house just outside Philly on T-Mobile and got 17.9/10.4. That's actually better than I thought since it only shows 3 bars and I usually use WiFi, which is more reliable in my house.

Peasent! 400 down 50 up here! Muwahahaaa

GL_1_Code1_1A

What's typical at home? Here in Canada we can get decent download bandwidth, but limited upload. 150mpbs/15mbps is typically as good as it gets outside of the large cities. Good enough for most consumers, but frustrating when you need more upload bandwidth.

I went from living in Italy (where your average connection is really really bad, like 3-4Mbps on average), to Glasgow (where I had Virgin fiber, 200Mbps: yay!). Now I live in Peebles, though, in a rural place. I have fiber to the cabinet, but it's 3 miles away from my house, which means I get about 13-14Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. How does that compare to the Isle of Man?

Axel DominatoR